But let's return to that postcard photo. What do you suppose brought these woman together? Some of them have a slight smile. Some look much more mysterious, spooky even. One or two look like they might be casting a spell on whoever it was taking the photo...
The Bit at the End
Are you familiar with the term, civil twilight? I'd never heard of it until a random Google search turned it up, while looking for something else. Civil twilight is defined astronomically as the period when the center of the sun is between 0° and 6° below the horizon (source), it's called that because the sky is still bright enough for people to conduct most “daytime” outdoor activities. Scientific American defines the three types of twilight here, and that's where I learned that civil twilight is followed by nautical twilight, and then astronomical twilight. BTW, Saturday night turn your clocks back an hour (unless you live in Arizona or parts of Canada). Will we ever stop this crazy time travel thing?
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Your Halloween decorations are perfect. I love the vase and its contents in particular.
ReplyDeleteI hate the time change even though this one is nominally better than "losing" an hour of sleep (although I imagine my husband will be now be unintentionally waking me at 5am for awhile). Thanks for sharing the interesting overview on twilight.
Thanks Kris! I so wish we could stop the madness and stay on DST!
DeleteOoooh, they are scary! Especially the left witches on bottom and middle row. I love your nature arrangements, especially the Pachy-daisy. I've not heard of 3 types of twilight. Time travel, that's a perfect description. I remember hearing about the back & forth clock for the first time as a youngster. And thought "we'll never pull this off".
ReplyDeleteHa! I like the younger you thought process. I can't believe we're still doing it.
DeleteHi - I joined your blog 4 or 5 years ago? its my favorite blog! But now for some reason "follow it" does NOT always send it to my email - Im not sure why. I do save them all so I can go back to the last one and click onto the newer post - but its so much easier not to - especially this week as I didnt get Wednesdays or todays. Do you know why? - should I just re-subscribe? I havent had this problem with the few other blogs I follow so it doesnt make any sense to me.
ReplyDeleteWell that's not good! I'm sorry this is happening (or not happening, as the case may be) and wish I knew why. When I set up the "follow it" service (after Google ended it's sending out of blog post notifications) I added my email(s) so I could see what exactly my readers were sent. Mine have shown up regularly. All I can suggest is that you do go ahead and resubscribe. How frustrating! If it helps at all keep in mind that I publish new posts every Mon, Wed, and Fri. So those are the days to go looking for new content. Thank you for reading!!!
DeleteThe dried Pachystegia insignis flowers are sublime and suitably ghostly!
ReplyDeleteI love them so much! I had another Pachystegia insignis years ago (10?) that sent out all of one flower. I still have its seedhead, dried, in a vase. Now I have more and all of them so different.
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